In March, state Rep. Alvin Holmes, D-Montgomery, said during a debate over a fetal heartbeat bill that “99 percent of the whites who are sitting in here now, if their daughter got pregnant by a black man, they are going to make their daughter have an abortion. They ain't gonna let her have the baby.”

In the same March 4 debate Holmes, who is black, added, "I will bring you 100,000 cash dollars tomorrow if you show me a whole bunch of whites that adopted blacks in Alabama.”

His words inspired Joy Portis of Montgomery to post a picture on Facebook of the Portis family's children: three biological white children, three adopted black children (including two daughters from Ethiopia), and an interracial son with Down syndrome.

The family is in the process of adopting another son from China.

“Meet our family,” the accompanying message said. “We see people, not skin color, and there are many families like ours here in Montgomery and all over the State of Alabama!”

"Life is precious. We are all created in the image of Christ,” she told local media. Regardless of “your skin color or your ability or disability, their life is valued and precious and we need to be here to open our homes when they're not wanted."

Holmes' comments made national headlines last month, shortly after he said on the state House floor that he doesn't like Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas “because he is an Uncle Tom.”

At least one person at Wednesday's event hopes to personally end the string of racially charged comments emanating from Holmes. His challenger, Republican nominee Tijuanna Adetunji, condemned his original comments last month, saying, "Pro-life is loving babies whether they're inside the womb or outside of the womb, whether you're black or white. It doesn't have a color."

“Too many of our youth are falling through the cracks while Mr. Holmes seems to only want to divide people by continually making racial slurs on the House floor,” she said. Holmes was elected to the House in 1974 and has served nearly 40 years.

After yesterday's display, Holmes remained steadfast. “The majority of white people in Alabama are against interracial marriage and they are against adoption of black children,” he said.

He clarified that he personally favors interracial adoption. “If anybody says Alvin Holmes is against interracial adoption, they are just as wrong as Adolf Hitler,” he said.